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The Germans, perhaps fishing for information, last week reported that Allied strength was being shifted to the Anzio beachhead. The Anzio beachhead would be much harder to exploit now than it would have been last January, but the German suggestion nonetheless made more than passable sense:
Amelia Earhart, lost in the Pacific in July, 1937, rose dubiously in the words of a Marshall Islands native: "A Jap trader named Ajima told me that an American woman flyer came down between Jaluit and Ailinglapalap Atolls. She was picked up by a Jap fishing boat [and] taken back...
Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most...
Warped to Order. She had a fine time, and spent close to $5,000,000 doing it. The school rambled over 3,000 lovely meadow and forest acres beside the Farmington River. The red sandstone buildings were in the style of England's Cotswolds. Roofs were carefully warped and...
Despite his backbreaking job of bossing all Ford production-and overseeing the building of Ford plants around the globe-Sorensen had plenty of time for deep-sea fishing, yachting (his cutter won the 1942 Detroit-Mackinac race), bridge and music. (He still plays the violin.)